Army announces JLTV teams

October 30, 2008 by Dagpotter · Comment
Filed under: AM General, BAE Systems, Contract Awards, Department of Defense, General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin, Navistar, U.S. Army, development program, logistics, production program 


The US Army announced the three teams of companies that will be awarded development contracts for the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV). The companies have a little over two years to develop a prototype vehicle for a series of tests. Then at least one, but hopefully from the DoD side possibly two, of the teams will be awarded production contracts. BAE is on two of the winning teams, those led by Navistar and Lockheed Martin. The third winning team was a new company, General Tactical Vehicles, made up of AM General and General Dynamics. The contract has the potential to be large with tens of thousands of JLTV vehicles being procured to replace the HUMVEE.

See Crain’s Detroit Business for the story.

Cross posted at BNET.

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US Army buys more HUMVEES

August 12, 2008 by Dagpotter · Comment
Filed under: AM General, Contract Awards, U.S. Army, logistics, production program 

AM General was awarded a contract to build more HUMVEES for the Army. See a press release here. The contract is worth over $240 M. The HUMVEE is the ubiquitous jeep replacement in the US military. Although the soft skinned version has been replaced in Iraq and Afghanistan by up armored versions and MRAPS, the US military still uses thousands of them all over the world as a general purpose vehicle.

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